ESWEEK 2026 Embedded System Software Competition (ESSC)
Research in embedded systems and internet of things (IoT) is generally supported by novel tools and software that are used to simulate, emulate, or validate research artifacts. The tools and software are typically not described in depth as part of research articles but are equally important. These tools and software are of potential value to the embedded systems community. Making tools open source and publishing them as artifacts can enable other researchers to leverage them in their own research. Overall, a strong ecosystem of tools will enrich research for the embedded systems community. To this end, the goal of this competition is to showcase software that have been developed as part of research project. We invite submissions from both academia and industry. Please refer to the call for submissions for more details.
ESSC 2026 Schedule
| Monday October 4, 2026 - Room MR10+11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Presentation |
| 13:30 - 13:43 | AAMLA: Automated Resource-Aware LLM Adaptation under Memory Constraints | In-person |
| 13:43 - 13:56 | NETRA: Energy-efficient Navigation at Edge towards Real-time Assistance for Visually Impaired Individuals | In-person |
| 13:56 - 14:09 | HISIM 2.0 : Heterogeneous Integration Simulator for Design Space Exploration of Chiplet Based Systems | In-person |
| 14:09 - 14:22 | Toward Practical Edge LLM Inference: Two-Bit Product-Quantized Decoding on Commodity CPUs | Virtual |
| 14:22 - 14:35 | 3DGS.Raspberry: CPU-GPU Collaborative Gaussian Splatting on Raspberry Pi 5 | In-person |
| 14:35 - 14:48 | Octopus: A Configurable, Observable, and Verifiable Memory-System Simulator for Multicore Embedded Systems | In-person |
| 14:48 - 15:00 | CiFKit: A Measurement-Driven Toolkit for Evaluating Compute-in-Flash Techniques in NAND Flash | Virtual |
| Break | ||
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Demo session | |
Important Dates
Submissions open: Jun 30, 2026
Submission deadline: September 7, 2026 (extended)
Decisions: September 15, 2026
Presentation at ESWEEK 2026: October 4 - October 9, 2026
Submission website: https://essc2026.hotcrp.com
Organizing Committee
Biresh Kumar Joardar
University of Houston
